peculiar是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 奇怪的, 古怪的; 特有的, 独具的, 独特的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This certainly is a rare and brilliant instance of those natural qualities in which these peculiar people are said to excel,' he answered.
-- Most of them are of local use, and others quite peculiar to the particular class of men to which the character belongs.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
-- Certain it is, his voice The Legend of Sleepy Hollowresounded far above all the rest of the congregation; and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel that by dwelling on some trick of speech or some queer habit I should be able to give them a significance peculiar to themselves.
-- I discovered presently that a peculiar story was circulating among her friends.
-- It was an ideal that he painted a poor one, common and shop-soiled, but still it was an ideal; and it gave his character a peculiar charm.
-- A man like Strickland would love in a manner peculiar to himself.
-- He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't deny it," replied Pencroft, "but the savages must know how to do it or employ a peculiar wood, for more than once I have tried to get fire in that way, but I could never manage it.
-- He then yelped in a peculiar way, which showed at once anger and uneasiness.
-- They asked themselves if by chance this incident might not have some connection with the inexplicable way in which the engineer had been saved, and the other peculiar circumstances which had struck them at different times.
-- Clothes:-2 dozen shirts of a peculiar material resembling wool, but evidently of a vegetable origin; 3 dozen stockings of the same material.
-- And the engineer said this in such a peculiar voice that it was difficult to know whether he spoke seriously or not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the child's, for child she certainly was, although I thought it probable from what I could make out, that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance.
-- No word of its real use, no hint of its nightly service, no allusion to its peculiar properties, had ever passed between him and his most intimate friends.
-- The gush of tobacco came from the shop downstairs, and the soapy arm proceeded from the body of a servant-girl, who being then and there engaged in cleaning the stairs had just drawn it out of a warm pail to take in a letter, which letter she now held in her hand, proclaiming aloud with that quick perception of surnames peculiar to her class that it was for Mister Snivelling.
-- Nell said 'indeed' in a tone which might imply, either that she was reasonably surprised to find the genuine and only Jarley, who was the delight of the Nobility and Gentry and the peculiar pet of the Royal Family, destitute of these familiar arts; or that she presumed so great a lady could scarcely stand in need of such ordinary accomplishments.
-- Although her duties were sufficiently laborious, Nell found in the lady of the caravan a very kind and considerate person, who had not only a peculiar relish for being comfortable herself, but for making everybody about her comfortable also; which latter taste, it may be remarked, is, even in persons who live in much finer places than caravans, a far more rare and uncommon one than the first, and is not by any means its necessary consequence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The face of the woman was of that whiteness peculiar to people who have been a long time in confinement, and which reminds one of potato-sprouts in a cellar.
-- (She pronounced the word "he" with a peculiar expression of horror and with wide-open eyes.)
-- From this day on the relations between Nekhludoff and Katiousha were changed, and there were established between them those peculiar relations which are customary between two innocent young people who are attached to each other.
-- And before his imagination arose that common phenomenon of the appearance of a long absent, beloved face, which, after the first shock produced by the external changes which have taken place during the long absence, gradually becomes the same as it was many years ago--all the past changes disappear, and before the spiritual eyes stands forth the main expression of the peculiar spiritual individuality.
-- But--wonderful to relate--so far from repulsing him, this only drew him to her by some new peculiar force.
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